Tough days for Government: two censure motions and budget bill

The Boc Government will have to face a few serious hurdles over the next few days, two censure motions, as well as pass through Parliament the 2011 budget bill, which, unless it gathers the votes it needs in order to be adopted, will be equivalent to the Government’s removal from office, in terms of consequences.
Whilst the opposition does not have, mathematically speaking, the necessary votes to remove the Government from office through the motion (it is short of 24 votes), the Government needs to mobilise its people when it comes to voting for the budget bill, because it has only 12 votes more than the 236 (half the number of MPs) necessary to adopt the year’s most important piece of legislation.
Opposition parties PNL (National Liberal Party) and PSD (Social-Democratic Party) yesterday submitted a censure motion, with another one set to be submitted today, after the Government yesterday assumed responsibility over the law of uniform salary and over the law on public sector salaries in 2011. Even if the Government is not toppled, i.e. if the laws are considered as adopted, their enforcement could be put off even beyond January 1st, because the opposition intends to challenge them before the Constitutional Court. The adoption of the salary laws is conditional on the release of a loan tranche in January, as part of the arrangement between the Government and the IMF.